fracking

Developers of a proposed pipeline extension that would bring natural gas to North Carolina have withdrawn legal proceedings to acquire land for the project. But the Mountain Valley Pipeline said it's not abandoning the $468 million project.

Methane that leaks from natural gas wells and pipelines or is vented during pipeline testing contributes to destruction of the ozone layer. Dominion…

The builders of the $7 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline say they will appeal a federal court ruling Thursday that invalidated a permit allowing the…

Updated at 8:55 p.m.A federal appeals court in Virginia has ruled that the $7 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline cannot be built across national forest land…

News that state environment officials were drilling near the Dan River last week to look for oil and gas caused a stir. One headline read: “North Carolina…

Police are looking for the drivers of two cars who may have been in the area of a hit and run accident that fatally injured a 26-year-old man early Friday…

Duke Energy is exploring the option of entering the fracking business. While the company says it has not made any decisions, it would mark a departure…

North Carolina is now one step away from legalizing fracking. A state commission has spent the past two years writing a broad set of rules to cover how…

The controversial oil and gas extraction process known as fracking could take its second-to-last step toward legalization in North Carolina on Friday. A…

Monday, September 8, 2014We recently devoted an hour to fracking, which just scratched the surface of the topic, and brought out a passionate response…